Survival equipment and gear, the survival kits

Survival is on the foremost of our minds continually, whether its for a camping trip, a vacation or just simply preparing for the end of the world. Survivalists around the globe are gathering survival supplies for a long stay on top of mountains in case the great floods come. As discussed, the most important piece of equipment you should take with you is your proper survivalist knife, complete with flint and compass, this is the ultimate tool and with this you can make all the other tools you may need.

Basic Survival Kit

When you are only going on vacation for a week or two into the wilderness, you obviously do not need as much equipment as if you were planning for doomsday. But there is no harm in being prepared and practising with some of the extreme survival equipment.

There are many different occasions that could require an emergency kit, such as flooding, earthquakes, terrorist attacks and Armageddon, and for each occasion, you would need different items in your emergency kit, and some survival kits would then be very large. But here are some of the items you my need in your survival kit, most people make up their own depending on medical and geographical requirements.

There are many hundreds of different survival kits around on the internet. The best way to ensure that you have everything that you need is to go away into the wilderness for a few days, get a feel for things, see what you need, that way, you could go home, buy the survival equipment you think you need, then plan another trip to test the products. This is a sure fire way to get it right, you cannot get it right by trying the products in your front room. You would not buy a car without taking it for a test drive, so don't gamble with your life.

Once you think you have got your own personal survival kit ready, for yourself or your whole family, you need to disperse the weight between those who can carry it, not to heavy to slow them down. If you have an area in mind where you would go in case of a catastrophe, you may consider having a water supply there, could be in the form of water containers, buried or hidden, obviously you would need to change over the water every few weeks. You would also need an easily accessible place to store your kits, some where dry, out of sunlight, but within easy reach, even in the darkness. Your kits should be constantly kept packed and at the ready, you cannot book an emergency in advance.

 In an emergency, say a massive flood is coming, you wake your family from their beds at 3am, and they will be so happy to see you at that time, they will all be blurry eyed and disorientated. Then what? Have you got a plan? Who is to do what? You need to have a plan, and you actually need to have practise runs. Here is an example of a family, husband and wife and four children aged 6, 10, 11 and 13 years of age, who are practising their emergency exit from their house.

 Dad hears the flood, screams as loud as possible for everyone to get up as he plugs in the bath and turns the tap on full, everyone wakes up, mum gets dressed then helps the 6 year old get dressed and heads down to pick up her survival kit. Dad rounds up the dressed kids and the kids head down to area where the survival kits are, dad, never stopping moving and shouting, has turned the bath tap off, grabbed what ever food is spare in bags and is now where the survival kits are, they all leave the front door together. So far this has taken seven minutes. The whole family are in the car or self inflated boat, and driving away if possible within ten minutes, with their survival kits heading to a predestined site with their neighbours.

This should be the maximum time to get out of the house, any longer and you may have already ruined your chances of survival. Since we live on a mountain and the family above is actually my family, the ten minutes for us is long enough, if you live on flat land or a in a valley, you will have to move quicker.